[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#743338: Bug#743338: Bug#743338: lighttpd: "Broken" migration to /var/www/html

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Arno Töll <arno at debian.org> wrote:
> As you should be aware as a DD, I am not allowed to touch conffiles. It

I don't think he's asking us to.

> will be updated accordingly if you did not modify the default
> configuration but apart there is not much I can do. I am not sure how
> the upgrade broke anything for you though. Apparently you had modified
> the lighttpd.conf so that it wasn't upgraded. Thus, it further continues
> to use whatever doc root you configured, and our default doc root
> contains nothing but the sample index.html file you're supposed to
> replace if you really want to use the default. Would you mind telling me
> more about your setup?

My guess is that he had documents in /var/www and had not modified
lighttpd.conf. Hence after the update his files in /var/www were no
longer being served.

>
> Please note, that the default document root is not really meant to be
> used by end users anyway. It's rather supposed to be the host of "last
> resort" when no other (virtual) host matches.

Users *are* using /var/www, especially if they've only got a single (v)host.

Olaf